The Tibetan Script
- Tibetan - how to write the Tibetan script.
- Elements of The Tibetan Writing System
- dbu med skung yig phyogs sbdus 'grol bshad - a text for practicing reading skung yig / sbdus yig
Tibetan Script Fonts:
Input Methods
Tibetan & Dzongkha computing:
Standardization:
- Tibetan Script in the UCS - ISO 10646 JTC1/SC2/WG2 Documents related to Tibetan script
- Precomposed Tibetan - Part A - Mapping table from GB/T20524-2006 "Tibetan coded character set Extension A" [PRC national standard for pre-composed Tibetan] to standard Unicode characters for Tibetan.
External Links
Tibetan Calligraphy (how to):
- Learning to write Tibetan - Don grub (PDF/ DjVu)
- Tibetan Writing
Course - Marc Turin (Quick Time video))
- How to draw the letters of the Tibetan alphabet.
Tibetan Script Fonts:
Free Fonts
- Free Tibetan Fonts project
- Jomolhari Font - at THL
- Dzongkha Fonts - Dzongkha Development Commission
- Tibetan Machine Uni - THL
- Qomolangma fonts - (CTRC)
Commercial Fonts
- Nitartha-Sambhota Dege Uniocde font - TTF OpenType, Windows & Linux
- Xenotype Technologies Tibetan Fonts - Mac OSX
- Tibetan Computer Company
Tibetan & Dzongkha Input Methods
- TISE Wylie input method (for Windows) - Grigory Mokhin
- Tibetan & Dzongkha Input for Macintosh - Christopher E. Walker
Note: Mac OSX 10.5 comes with three Tibetan Input Methods: Tibetan - Otani, Tibetan - QWERTY, and Tibetan - Wylie. - Wylie input in Javascript - David Linton
- Tibetan Character Picker - Richard Ishida
Tibetan (Chöke) Texts:
Standardization / Character Encoding:
- Tibetan Block of the Unicode Standard - The Unicode Consortium
- BabelMap Online chart of the Tibetan block in the UCS - BabelMap
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Tibetan Dictionaries (on-line / electronic):
- Tibetan to English Dictionary & Translation Tool - Andrés Montano Pellegrini
- Tibetan to English Dictionary & Translation Tool - at THL
- Tibetan-English-Tibetan Dictionary ~ Palden Tashi, Kevin Stuart, Rinchen Dorji, et al (2007) Open Source book
- A Tibetan-English dictionary, with Sanskrit synonyms - Sarat Chandra Das (1902)
- English-Tibetan colloquial dictionary - Sir Charles A. Bell (1920)
- A Tibetan-English dictionary - H.A Jäschke (1881)
- An English-Tibetan dictionary - Kazi Dawa Samdup (1919)
- The Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Culture (CD)
Tibetan Transliteration & Transcription:
- Library of Congress Tibetan Romanization - scanned text from the 1997 edition of the ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association.
- A Standard System of Tibetan Transcription - T. V. Wylie (HTMLized version of the original article).
- THL Extended Wylie Transliteration Scheme (EWTS)
- Teaching THL Extended Wylie - A. Anton-Luca
- UNGEGN Romanization of Tibetan [PDF] -
Mailing Lists:
- Tibscript Mailing List - Specialized discussion regarding Tibetan scripts in and out of computing environments.
Portals:
- Digital Tibetan - An exellent informative wiki on using Tibetan Unicode software and fonts on different computer platforms.
- Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) - A comprehensive site for Tibetan studies - The tools section includes detailed sections on Tibetan script, Tibetan computing, fonts and much more.
- Tibetan Portal - This is the "blog format" version of Chris Walker's useful site. Link to original Tibetan Portal.
- Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems - Ed Trager's excellent resource. Unicode fonts for almost every script.
More Links…
- Tibetan Calligraphy Links — at Himalayan Art
Blogs:
- Tibetan Scripts - an occassional blog about writing systems used in Tibet and the Himalayan region - as well as character encoding, fonts and software for Tibetan and related writing systems.
- Reading Tibetan Manuscripts - on the History of the Tibetan script and reading ancient Tibetan manuscripts.
- Dungkar’s Great Encyclopaedia: The Tibetan Script - translated by Sam van Schaik.